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Australia Hiring Additional Mandarin-speaking Manpower For “Foreign Intervention Cases”

The relation between China and Australia remains tense. In an interview from The Australian, the Chief of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) Reece Kershaw stated that they would be hiring more Mandarin-speaking staff to handle foreign interference cases. Besides, he said that the AFP was also hiring some language graduates and Chinese-Australians for these “new and complex” cases.

Besides the transnational or organised crime, the AFP also needs to handle the missions of protecting national safety. Facing the intensified conflict between China and Australia, “We are facing the well-trained high-tech people… the challenge for such criminals is how to bring intelligence to evidence.” said Kershaw, who had just been the Chief for a year in the interview by The Australian.

He stated that there were 65 detectives in charge with foreign intervention at the moment but that AFP still had inadequate in detectives who know Chinese. As a result, he would continue to employ related staff, “Our team needs to be more diverse, similar to the Australia society, but we are not there yet”.

Kershaw disclosed that he asked the FBI for assistance last year, the bureau provided detailed training materials for the federal police, to help with the investigation which involving the crimes of violations of the Foreign Intervention Law passed in 2018. Among them, there was a joint action between the AFP and NSW police, raided Labour MP Shaoquett Moselmane and his office part-time assistance John Zhang involving in the Chinese Communist Party’s infiltration incident. Zhang was even accused of participating in the CCP’s united front training in 2013, hiding his identity from his boss, and influencing his boss wit improper means.

Source from: Stand News #Oct01

https://bit.ly/3dd2ar6

#CCP #China #Australia #AFP #ReeceKershaw #TheAustralian #Mandarin
Australian Media Said a WeChat Group Organised to Complain University Staff, Suppressing on Giving a Higher Score

Australia is the first choice for many Chinese students studying abroad. The Australian discovered that a local WeChat group initiated an organised petition to complain about individual staff, intending to obtain a better academic result through suppression. The media then found out that the same group uses the same method to target lecturers and researchers who have ever criticised China.

According to The Australian, Sydney International Student Help Group, the WeChat group, claimed that they could overthrow the unsatisfied exam results or assignment grades at the advertisement in the chats and on the local Chinese websites. The media once pointed out that some lecturers at universities lowered the grade boundaries for students who have limited English proficiency, or else, they would receive complaints from hundreds of students. At the time, some affected students speculated that there might have other people helping students to organise and to write the complaint letter.

The group administrators are named “Chairperson” or “Senior” with unknown identities. After the investigation by The Australian, “Monkey King”, a migration and studying abroad agency, may take control of the group admin. The Australian therefore enquired Monkey King, but the spokesperson Katie Howe refused to comment on this issue. Nevertheless, the representative lawyer of one of the shareholders, Chenrul Dong, said that the company did use the group for service promotion, but do not have the permission to control the group. Apart from institutions, the company website also shows the corporation relationship with Chinese organisations, such as NetEase and Today Media Group.

#China #Australia #AcademicFreedom #Suppression #TheAustralian #MonkeyKing #WeChat

Source: Stand News #Nov19

https://bit.ly/3mmcroH
CCP Member in Suspicion of Infiltration through Embassies. Scholar: Shanghai is the Hub for China's Espionage Activities

Chinese government’s infiltration by the CCP members in foreign countries catches foreign attention. Followed by The Mail on Sunday from the UK revealing that CCP members have served in British academy and other occupations, Australia newspaper, The Australian reported that at least ten foreign embassies in Shanghai, including Australia, the UK and the US, were suspected being infiltrated by CCP members. Embassies employ CCP members as senior political and government affairs officials, clerk, economic advisors, and administrative assistant. They are employed by foreign embassies that may be a portion of the "state-sponsored spy network".

Employees in Foreign Embassies are Employed Through Chinese Government Agencies

The Australian reported that at least ten countries' embassies in Shanghai are hiring or have hired CCP members as senior administrative and government affairs officials, clerks, economic advisors, and administrative assistants. These countries include Australia, the US, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, India, New Zealand, Italy, South Africa, etc.

#China #ChineseEmbassy #CCP #Shanghai #Espionage #TheMailonSunday #TheAustralian

Source: Apple Daily #Dec14

https://hk.appledaily.com/international/20201214/2NNXARYBFFAQNLQ3SDJWOXJOZ4/